Collapsible garment-hanger support.



V A. L. MANN. GOLLAPSIBLE GARMENT HANGER SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 15, 1913. 1, 1 07,624, Patented Aug. 18, 1914.

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ALICE LYELL MANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

C OLLAPSIIBLE GARMENT-HANGER SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedAug. 18, 1914.

Application filed March 15. 1913. Serial No. 754,479.

To all whom it may camera Be it known that I, Amen LYELL MANN, a citizenof the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New Yorkand State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inCollapsible Garment-Hanger Supports, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to an improvement in supports for garment hangersadapted to be madeto assume a compact form such that it may beconveniently carried by the traveler in a trunk and readily assembledfor use in connection with a wardrobe or a closet, or otherwise, in ahotel on placeof sojourn where facilities for the neat disposition ofthe garments of the traveler are absent.

Travelers, and more particularly ladies, often find an utter lack ofconvenience at hotels and other stoppin places for the appropriatedisposition of their garments, and this invention is designed to providea garment hanger support which may be collapsed into compact form sothat it may be easily carried by the traveler from place to place in atrunk and may be very quickly and easily assembled for use.

With these objects in view, the invention consists in the featureshereinafter described and set forth in the claim appended to thedescription.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating the invention Figure 1 is anelevation, partly in section, illustrating the garment hanger support ofmy invention assembled for use, as, for example, spanning the spacebetween the opposite side walls of a closet, and garment hallgerssupported thereby. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a detail sectionalview showing one end of the support and the bracket to which it isremo-vably attached. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the several membersof the support nested together in compact form.

In describing the invention its use in a closet lacking properfacilities will be referred to, although it is apparent that it may besimilarly used in a wardrobe, or, indeed, in other positions in a room.as, for instance, in connection with the opposite vertical jambs of adoorway or window, or the like.

In the said drawing, the reference numeral 1 designate a fractionalillustration of the side walls of a closet, and 2 brackets removablysecured thereto as by means of screws or similar detachable fasteningdevices 3 and havin lateral or horizontal arms 4 which may suitablybraced, as at The horizontal arm of each bracket car ries a verticalpost (5 suitably spaced from the vertical member 2 of the bracket toafford accommodation for the hereinafter referred to hanger support, andthese posts, as shown, are screw-threaded at their free ends for thereception of a nut or other suitable binder to hold the garment hangersupport immovable in place when assembled in relation thereto, as, inuse.

It is common experience that the closets or wardrobes of hotels are ofdifferent width, and so also the distance between the jambs of a door orthe like varies, and to compensate for this difference or variation mygarment hanger supportis composed of a series of tubular metallicsections 7 capable of being adjusted within the minimum and maximumcapacity thereof to accommodate itself to the posts of the bracketsupports irrespective of the distance between the walls or otherfixtures to which said brackets are attached. Each of the sectionscomprising the support is of equal length (see Fig. 4) and it isdesigned that the length shall be such that when the sections are nested'together the support as an entirety shall be of a length which may bevery convenient for disposing in the trunk of the traveler, and also nottoo long for use in closets or wardrobes of small size or width betweenthe walls. Each section 7 of the support is provided near its oppositeend with diametrically opposite registering apertures 8 for thereception of the bracket posts (5; and the apertures 8 of the respectivetubular sections may he brought into register for the reception of abolt or the like 9, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawing, the purposeof this being that when, as will he often the case, the support isassembled in a position where the utilization of two and a greater orless proportion of the length of a third, intermediate, section isnecessary, the apertures 8 may be brought into register and the bolt 9passed therethrough to stiffen the support there and prevent possiblemovement of the intermediate section or sections, which movement, if notguarded against, might result in the intermediate sections separatingwhich would result in the disruption of the unitary support.

It will be observed that my improved garment hanger support may be usedin the collapsed or folded condition illustrated in Fig. l, where thedistance between the perforations 8 accords with the distance betweenthe posts of the brackets when fixed for use; also that where thedistance between said posts is greater the middle or inner section ofthe support may be extended whatever length may be necessary within thescope of the distance between the perforations 8 thereof plus thedistance between the pen forations S oftho outermost section, to aceommodate the support to the. distance between the bracket posts, and ifthe space to be spanned is greater, as is often and perhaps most usuallythe case, than can be taken care of by two telescopic sections the thirdis brought into use, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and a :t'urtheradjustment is secured, as this intermediate section may be withdrawnfrom the outermost section to any desired degree required by theoccasion. hen but one section is used, or when but two sections areused, the attachment of the sections to the bracket posts holds the saidsections in extended condition against any inter-relative movement: but,when three or more sections are brought into play, then, in order toprovide against movement of the intermediate sections, the perforations8 thereof are brought into register and a securing device, such as thebolt 9, passed through the registering perforations and held there as bya nut 10. This effectually guards against any objectionable movement,and, furthermore, stiiiens the support intermediate the end sectionswhich are connected to the bracket posts.

My improved garmenthanger support is designed to be constructed of thinsheet or other suitable metal, so that it Will be light of weight,strong and steady in use, and so that there will be no appreciable orobjectionable differentiation in. the diameters of the several sectionswhen extended for use, as shown in Fig. 1.

The sections 7 while of different diameters are each of uniform diameterthroughout its length, both interiorly and exteriorly, and

asthe perforations 8 through the ends of the sections are the samedistance from said ends, the several sections of a support may beassembled or nested irrespective of the end inserted. After nesting thesections 7 to prevent separation thereof and to prevent loss of theconnecting bolt 9, the latter may be inserted through the registeringperforations 8 in one end of the several sections and the nut 10 screwedthereon, or a bolt may be inserted in the perforations in each end iftwo bolts are employed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:-

The combination with outstanding brackets having straight upwardlyprojecting posts on their ends of uniform diameter and threaded at theirextremities, and means for securing said brackets in position, of agarment hanger support composed of a series of straight tubulartelescopic sections of equal length, each sect-ionbeing of uniformdiameter interior-1y and exteriorly for its entire length to permitextension of said support at either end, and provided adjacent its endswith diametrically opposed perforations equally spaced from said endsand of a size to easily fit over said posts, so that when the support isfully collapsed the perforations in the several sections will registerand may be attached to said bracket posts, and when extended to anydesired distance in. either direction the perforations in the ends ofthe extreme sections may be engaged on said bracket posts, a nut on thethreaded end of each post to retain the hanger support thereon, and afastening bolt to enter said registering perforations and hold thesupport collapsed, or when extended to be placed in the perforations inone or the other end of the intermediate section and the inner end of anextreme section to lock said sections against movement.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing Witnesses.

ALICE- LYELL MAN N. Vl it-nesses WM. Honors MANN Rivas B. HARDY.

